Where are my CloudAppEvents?

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:33:02 +0000

During a recent engagement I stumbled across an interesting observation: the Defender for Cloud Apps advanced hunting table CloudAppEvents was empty, even though the tenant had adopted Microsoft 365 collaboration and security tooling.

No events in the CloudAppEvents table

The Microsoft 365 app connector was reported as healthy, with the initial connection dating back to 2022:

Healthy App Connector

However, when opening the connector, none of the Microsoft 365 components were actually selected:

No components selected

So either someone forgot to tick the boxes back in 2022, or Microsoft used different auto-provisioning defaults at the time.

This is also called out in the Microsoft docs ¹:

In January 2026, the default values were added to support complete security coverage. If you configured your application before January 2026, make sure you select all of the default options and select Connect again to update your configuration.¹

For maximum protection, we recommend selecting all Microsoft 365 components. Some threat detection and response functionalities don’t work unless all required components are properly selected.¹

Interestingly, on another, more recently onboarded tenant where the connector had never been modified, all boxes were ticked except for file monitoring.

MDA on Nicola Suter

Where are my CloudAppEvents?